If you hear citizen Moi talking about KATIBA, the way he explains how we must get a good Katiba to be peaceful, you would be forgiven for imagining this has been a crusader of human rights and social democracy all his life.
It would never cross your mind for a minute if you are a visitor in Kenya for the first time and never heard of Moi that this is the very demagogue who presided over the erosion of our democracy and social fabric, the man in whose hands social injustice crept into Kenya through his very inept leadership.
Moi, you would not fathom, is the father of corruption, impunity and degradation of our institution,( the godfather of psychophancy that some politicians have never been cured of) to the extent that we are now reshaping our constitution to build the very institutions he broke down over his 24 years of presiding over human rights abuses, torture, maiming, murder and wanton theft of public resources.He eroded the very constitution we are embarking on changing by his road side declarations, systematic deconstruction of the Judiciary and Parliament to the extent that these became irrelevant in Kenya until recently(at least for Parliament, Judiciary has never recovered).
For such a man to be even heard in public “advising” what he had 24 years to achieve and only succeeded in incarcerating those who fought for what he claims to be fighting for now is an irony that even the devil incarnate cannot understand.
Citizen Moi needs to shut up, he has no fragment of any morality to even open his mouth where discussions veer to topics such as good leadership, good governance and human rights.Otherwise, the government may be tempted to deal with Dictator Moi the way all dictators are dealt with.
Otieno Sungu.
Juba-Southern Sudan
I have no problem with Citizen Moi excercing his democratic right to air his views on any topical issues but when he uses that to resist the changes that we so desire and which he denied us during his reign of terror,then he cant just be allowed to continue trying to lord it over us as if he is still the President.He should remember that he had enough time to implement the things he is now suggesting should be in the constitution but did nothing about them.He should borrow a leaf from other retired Afican leadres like Mandela.Chisano,Mkapa and Moghae who dont openly participate in their countries politics.The people were just starting to forget his past misdeeds and let him be but by being in the papers everyday we are made to remmber Tito Adungosi,Karimi Nduthu,Robert Ouko and the rest who were brutally murdered in suppressing the need for the very changes we are about to get.Not to forget how Rev.Njoya was beaten by goons outside parliament.Citizen Moi would do us a great favour by keeping his peace.